A new study warns that the Delta coronavirus variant can evade natural immunity.

The Washington Post reports that, according to a new study published in Nature, the Delta COVID-19 variant “has mutations that allow it to evade some of the neutralizing antibodies produced by . . . a natural infection.”

Although a single shot of a two-dose vaccine “‘barely’ offers any protection,” the study also “found that fully vaccinated people – with the recommended regimen of two shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech or AstraZeneca vaccine – should retain significant protection against the delta variant.”

This echoes another report written by a collaboration of scientists in the United States and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The New York Times reports that in the study, “researchers tested how well antibodies produced by natural infection and by coronavirus vaccines neutralize the Alpha, Beta and Delta variants, as well as a reference variant similar to the original version of the virus.”

The bottom line, as I’ve been telling you again and again, even if you’ve had COVID, don’t fail to get the vaccine.

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